Clicks and Pops Artist panel

This was my first my experience with an artist panel here at UNR and it was actually rather inspiring.
The panel was made up of Louis Niebuhr (Musicology), Jean-Paul Perrotte (Music Theory and Composition),  Robert Morrison(Profesor Emeritus Sculpture, UNR) and Tohm Judson (Composition and Digital Media). I think the professors on the panel where a nice concentrated group of individuals that really showed the diverse areas of music research that UNR covers and having Tohm there really provided a nice diversity in opinions and perspective that I thought made the for a better well rounded discussion. They were all very knowledgeable on their respective areas of focus and were passionate about those areas.

My favorite part of the panel was listening to Tohm Judson talk about his work and his perspective on being outside academia. I think this is a view that is extremely important to students, especially digital media students, because he was discussing the possibilities someone has to do professional art in a digital medium setting and how you can be successful in that practice.


The other professors had a lot of great things to say and you could see how each individual viewed their subject material and how that produced their current viewpoint. Though it was odd for me to see Robert Morrison on the panel, as I have had a drawing class from him and it was predominantly focused on perspective. Also knowing that his background is in sculpture, though he did bring in some interesting points on how music and sculpture can interact and become a piece together. I guess he was another outlier in terms of major focus on music.

New Final Model

Utopia by Dustmittens on Sketchfab

Model Update

The critique Mason and I went through last Monday was very helpful. We received a lot of great stuff, but most notably that it seemed out concept was confusing and muddled. So we have taken this week to start from scratch and rework our concept and model in order to push what kind of message we want to get across. This gave us some new found inspiration and really allowed us to zero in and push an idea. We decided that we wanted to push into a world that is entirely dependent on oil as an energy source.

Using this image as our reference to model  from.

3D View of WIP Model

AR WIP by Dustmittens on Sketchfab

Augmented reality update!

We are arriving at the last stages of our model and will be spending the majority of the rest of the semester working on getting it to map right in real space. We will are working on getting a couple more ads into the model, just figuring out placement.

Technical Rider

Art 451 Problems in Digital Media
Fall 2015

YOUR NAME(S): Zachary Cordisco and Mason Furr

TITLE OF PIECE: Utopia

MEDIUM: Mobile Augmented Reality

DESCRIPTION:  

Our project is a site specific piece that will involve the manipulation of the site through augmented reality. The goal is to render the corner of fourth and sierra, when facing the silver legacy, of downtown Reno. We are choosing to model a society that is balancing on hope and fear. We would like to depict a civilization just before the apocalypse happens.

PREFERED SPACE:

The work will be location specific. The corner of fourth and Sierra facing towards the Silver legacy will be our subject matter.  

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

In order to view our work, the user will need to have a smartphone with gps and to have downloaded the app called “Layar”.

Post Critique thoughts

After critique/status updates today, we got some feedback to approach the remodeling of the building from a different perspective. Instead of apocalypse styled broken down things, we are going to attempt to push into an area that is "Just before" the apocalypse happens. We are going for a feel of hope AND fear in the things we create, in order to really bring something new to the apocalypse thing that has been done over and over. This will provide a new challenge for me because I now get to approach these buildings in a whole new perspective and really push my imagination to see where it goes.